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The Emergency Response Fund (ERF) hosted a donor round table on 24 March 2011 as part of efforts to replenish the Fund. Speakers at the function included the Norwegian Ambassador, Christian Care representing National NGOs, Help Germany representing International NGOs who have received ERF funding in the past and the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator.
The ERF is seeking $6.5million in 2011 to meet unplanned emergency interventions and is a part of CAP...

Review of the ERF Charter and adoption
of a criterion for selection of projects to be funded under the ERF has
been completed. In a Board meeting on 15 February 2011, chaired by the
Humanitarian Coordinator and attended by representatives of national and
international NGOs as well as UN agencies, the Board reviewed proposed
changes and made the following recommendations. h
Scope of ERF supported interventions to be better defined. Deletion of
Statement of...

(Harare/New York, 4 May 2010) - Some 5
million children in Zimbabwe will receive urgently needed protection from
the spread of measles thanks to a $5.6 million allocation from the United
Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF).

"The CERF contribution will allow
for urgent programmes to immunize children against this deadly disease.
Halting the spread of measles now should avert a number of preventable
deaths", said John Holmes, the United Nations Emergency...

14 January 2010: Zimbabwe is still in a
major economic crisis with 94 percent unemployment, industries working
at less than 40 percent of capacity, rock bottom private sector confidence,
little cash circulating among the vast majority of Zimbabweans, and barter
trade estimated at 37 percent in rural areas.

In addition, the overall humanitarian
needs in the country are still pressing. According to the recently launched
2010 CAP for Zimbabwe, an estimated six million...